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must ever remember that he cannot originate but only turn to good 
account the results of thoughtful observations and studied experiences.” 
‘The season is much, the farmer is more. Crops follow judgment 
more than the weather.’’ 
“ Agriculture as an art and a science, must be progressive, otherwise 
it will fail to keep pace with the requirements of our age.’? 
*‘Any class of men who have not thought-makers among them, must 
become hewers of wood and the drawers of water. This is a social law. 
In education must be the farmer’s hope, in thought-power must be the: 
reliance of farmers.”’ 
“‘ The peril to agriculture is to come more from personal ignorance 
than from other’s competition; not higher prices, but cheap food and 
intelligence are for the continued and best interests of the country, the 
farmer included. The farmer should consider himself, both for his 
own welfare and as a fact, a citizen rather than as belonging to a 
class.’’ 
During all his life, Dr. Sturtevant was industrious with 
his pen. A great reader, and with an extensive private 
library at his command, he stowed away in his retentive 
memory, or in card note form, much to assist him in his 
subsequent work. An examination of his writings in 
pamphlet or book form will show foot-note references to an 
extent seldom seen. During his life, he had accumulated 
many thousand notes on cards, which he filed away and 
found of constant use. I counted in his library this sum- 
mer over 170 small card catalogue boxes, each of which would 
hold about 75 cards. In these he gathered together an 
agricultural dictionary, and thousands of miscellaneous 
notes on things agricultural, botanical and historical. Later 
he had a large wooden case built, containing 30 drawers for 
cards, about 20 of which he filled with thousands of cards. 
Between 1883 and 1896 he inscribed notes on these cards, 
and among the last things he attended to a few weeks be- 
fore his death, was to see that these were presented to the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, where he felt that they would 
meet with appreciative use. 
While Director of the New York Station he became 
greatly interested in agricultural plants, and commenced to 
gather historical data concerning them. After exhausting 
